The Language Perfect World Championships is a 10-day event - the biggest on the Education Perfect World Series calendar. It carries the most weighting in the overall standings, and offers students the chance to compete in any combination of the languages on offer - so, there's no need to stick to just one!

We are very proud to be once again partnering with NZIIU, who are providing$9,000 worth of Student Exchange Scholarship prizes for New Zealand. Gold and Elite award winners in New Zealand will be automatically eligible to apply for the scholarships.

Are your students ready to compete?

Here's your checklist:

Register your students! Your students are already registered if they have a current subscription to Language Perfect. For any additional students, please enrol them ASAP! The registration fee is $5 per student but if you use the code "NZCLTA" when you register, all of your students can participate for free!

Warm Up! Get your students practising as soon as they are registered. It's a great opportunity to check out the Languages in Action content, which is free until the end of May. If you’re after a winning strategy, you can discuss your game plan with the team at Education Perfect. You canbook a time that suits you online

Bookmark our Steps to Success page. This link is your toolkit for engaging students and enabling them to achieve in the Education Perfect World Series. It is packed with great tips including those from past champions and is updated regularly during the competition season.

Join our online EP community! Like our Facebook page and join teachers, students and supporters from all over the world as they post comments and photos, share tips, and cheer each other on!

We can't wait to see your students have fun while they achieve their academic goals!

Education Perfect Proficiency Month is an opportunity for all schools to take part in online diagnostic proficiency tests with Education Perfect at the beginning of the school year, for FREE. The EP Proficiency Tests will be offered to Years 7 - 10 for the following languages:

Chinese

French

German

Indonesian

Italian

Japanese

Spanish

These tests will give teachers insights into students' understanding across a range of topic areas, with an aim to provide schools with a comprehensive report of their students’ abilities and needs, in order to help them create learning opportunities that improve student outcomes.

Once assessed, students will be provided with feedback on their results and will be directed to learning materials and smart lessons that target recommended content. Teachers are provided with summarised data of student and class results, highlighting areas of strength and weakness.

This short film which has just become the first New Zealand film in Mandarin language featuring a Chinese cast to be selected in competition in the New Zealand International Film Festivals (NZIFF).

This is the first time ever a New Zealand short film in any Chinese language has been selected, and the first time a New Zealand film with a Kiwi all-Chinese cast has been selected.

This short film has been selected by acclaimed director Lee Tamahori as one of only 6 shorts (out of 81 entries) to screen in the "New Zealand's Best" programme, the only competitive section of the NZIFF.

It will be great if the Chinese community and Chinese language-learning community could come out to support the film at its screenings (below), and spread the word about it!

There is also a vote for audience favourite at the screenings so it would be lovely if as many people as possible came to vote and help a Chinese-language film win the award.

Tickets normally sell out very quickly so make sure to get in fast - I've included links and details below for you.

The 2016 Education Perfect World Series is underway and there’s less than a week to go until the start of the Language Perfect World Championships 2016 - the largest event in the World Series calendar!

Get involved!

Join over 1,000 schools and 300,000 students from around the world to learn vocabulary in other languages. Learn vocabulary online, earn points and compete for awards and prizes. Anyone can participate, it doesn't matter if you've never learnt a language before, just jump in and get involved! Compete against each other, compete for your school and compete for your country! It's fast paced, exciting, and very competitive... Are you up for the challenge?

Language Perfect World Championships 2016: Mon 16 May - Thu 26 May

Get registered!

Just a few days left to get your students registered to be a part of the largest online languages competition on the planet! To get involved, register online. Students who are already registered on Education Perfect are automatically able to compete.

Get in training!

Bookmark our Steps to Success page. This link is your toolkit for engaging students in the Education Perfect World Series. It features tips from the 2015 Champions, and will be updated regularly during the competition season with other useful information.

Get your free entries!

New Zealand Chinese Language Teachers' Association is an Official Partner of the Championships, so our members get 50 FREE ENTRIES for the competition. Use the special code: NZCLTA to register your students for the Language Perfect World Championships 2016 and you will unlock 50 additional free student entries.

Get competitive!

Did you know that you can throw down a challenge to other schools you are linked to?

You can challenge any school in your local area, or indeed any school you have links with anywhere in the world. Contact support@languageperfect.com ASAP with your name and the list of schools that you’d like to challenge, and they will create your very own mini scoreboard for you! It's easy to set up, they just need to be introduced to a contact at each school and they will handle the rest.

The New Zealand China Council, working with the Asia New Zealand Foundation, the three Confucius Institutes and ILEP, is hosting a conference in Auckland on 13 October on the teaching of Chinese in New Zealand Secondary Schools.

The conference, which is open to all secondary Principals or to their senior staff, will look at the reasons for teaching Chinese in New Zealand, government and employers’ interest in having China-skilled staff, the experience of students studying Mandarin and of Principals who introduced the language to their schools.

The afternoon session will look at various options for teaching the language and professional development opportunities for staff. A range of resource people will be present to share their experiences and to discuss the programmes they represent.

NZALT International Languages Week takes place from 17 to 23 August 2014.

International Languages Week has been run in schools around New Zealand for several years now. The idea is that each school or region takes advantage of the opportunity to showcase and promote both language and culture in their school and or community.

The Chinese and New Zealand Ministries of Education are offering up to 12 scholarships to New Zealand teachers of Chinese to attend a 3 – week intensive language and culture programme in China in September - October 2014.